Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.

The request seeks to drop obstruction charges against two former Trump co-defendants charged with obstructing justice in the classified documents case.

The Justice Department has had discussions about the future of the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

The Justice Department appears poised to take a very different approach to investigating voting and elections. Conservative calls to overhaul the department by removing career employees, increasing federal voter fraud cases and investigating the 2020 election are raising concerns among voting rights groups about the future of the

The Trump administration has removed the U.S. Justice Department's senior career ethics official from his post, according to a person familiar with the matter, in an action likely to stoke fears about whether the department will be able to remain insulated from political pressures and conflicts,

President Donald Trump’s administration is ending the case against his former co-defendants in the classified documents investigation brought by former special counsel Jack Smith.

Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside the president in 2023. They all pleaded not guilty.

Fortenberry represented Nebraska until resigning in 2022 following an initial conviction in a jury trial in California. That conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in a ruling that said the case instead should have been filed in Nebraska or Washington, D.C.

The mass firings are a warning shot aimed at bringing others in the department to heel. Every president at some point during his administration chafes at the independence of the Justice Department. None have moved as swiftly or definitively as President Donald Trump to put the department firmly under his thumb.